Italy! OMG!

Today is my 4 month anniversary in the Netherlands. Only 8 more to go, that's incredible. Time flies when you're having fun, I suppose. Riki and I booked our tickets to Rome the other day. I am so excited, I've wanted to go to Italy for as long as I can remember. So we're going February 17-22 and I found us a couch to sleep on =) And the plane tickets were fairly decent, 90 euros for a return flight from Eindhoven. 

I can't friggin wait. 

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And I wonder

When I sing along with you

If everything could ever feel this real forever

If anything could ever be this good again

A New Year

I was fortunate enough to go home for Christmas vacation. December 23-30 and it wasn't nearly long enough. Not to mention that 20+ hours were spent on a plane or in an airport. But it was really awesome to be able to see my friends and family once again. Although I came home to discover that my father is now living with my grandmother, which means that him and my stepmother are separated. Yeah, Merry Fucking Christmas to me! Needless to say, the house felt.. ripped apart. It didn't help that they are in the midst of renovations so it was, literally, ripped apart, and Brandy was nowhere to be found. RIP Baby! 

Christmas dinner was spent at my grandmother's, who went away to my cousins in Toronto, with just my father and my sister. It was bittersweet. It felt extremely weird having dinner with just the two of them, knowing that my brother and stepmother were back at home, having dinner alone as well. But it was kind of nice, because it was the first time it's ever been just the 3 of us. 

Le Skratch was actually open on Christmas day, which meant Dolla Dolla Beers Ya'll! =) Thursdays back home are quite possibly my favourite day ever! Except this particular Thursday didn't go as planned. I got pretty smashed, along with all of my friends, and my brother even came which was sweet because he turned 19 after I moved away. Anyway, saw lots of people I haven't seen in months and after the bar closed, ended up in the middle of several fights trying to calm everyone down. Eventually the police got involved and I almost got arrested for assaulting my best friend. Haha, I was pushing him yes, but I was pushing him away from all the commotion so that he wouldn't get in trouble. The police officer told me to leave or get arrested. Hm, tough decision. If I didn't have obligations here in Europe, I totally would have gotten arrested. Anyway, my best friend spent Christmas night in jail and is now being charged with assault on a police officer. Fuckin' aye! 

Now, since being back in Holland, life just hasn't been the same. I arrived here New Years Eve morning and I haven't left the house since. Sure, I had lots of plans to go out but I was either a) too depressed to go out or b) my friends bailed on me. I sit here now awaiting my friends phone call or online message so I can hopefully go meet her and a new au pair for coffee or beer or something just to get me out of this place. I'm going crazy.